Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 18:19:04 -0800 From: David Paul Zimmerman <dpz@ack.berkeley.edu> To: FreeBSD AMD list <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Sun X4100 LSI1064 support Message-ID: <bb6efae693e68906e7fccb65aed92eb7@ack.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <95B70169-CDE3-4A50-80B7-84409D7A4724@khera.org> References: <d03e02d94c88ae4f27c3d36dbef2321d@ack.berkeley.edu> <95B70169-CDE3-4A50-80B7-84409D7A4724@khera.org>
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On Jan 9, 2006, at 8:24 AM, Vivek Khera wrote: > On Jan 6, 2006, at 8:46 PM, David Paul Zimmerman wrote: > >> Hi, all. We recently purchased a Sun X4100, which has the built-in >> LSI1064 SAS adapter. So far a lot of stuff seems to work: >> >> - autoboots the amd64 6.0-RELEASE disc1 CD >> - USB keyboard and VGA monitor connected to the back work great >> - gets all the way to the FreeBSD setup menu > > Prior to buying mine I did some research and found that SAS support is > probably a ways off, unfortunately. So I purchased mine without disks > in the hopes of booting and running from the RAID card.... however, I > missed the fact that it only has low-profile slots and the LSI cards > are not available in low profile. > > Are you planning to run a RAID card on yours? If so, which one? The > only one that seems to have a chance of working for me is the Adaptec > 2230SLP (I need dual channel). No, I'm just going to live off of an external USB drive for now. I bought our X4100 because of the drop-dead gorgeous specs, presuming that FreeBSD would support it someday, and could be a test system for development efforts. I've got no production plans at the moment; the Wiki that was going to be its sole tenant is going off to milk cows on a Web farm instead. For now, I'm just happy that the SAS adapter is the only unsupported device that I've run across. dphome | help
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